Car-replacer.



No. 772,432. PATENTED OCT. 18, 1904. H. H. RIPPE.

GAR REPLAGER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 29, 1904. N0 MODEL. I

, UNITED V STAT-ES Patented October 18, I904.

PATENT OFFICE.

' IIERMANN 1111 1 12, or oLEvEnANn-orno.

(DAR-REPLACER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,432, dated October 18, 1904.

Application filed February 29, 190 i. Serial No. 195,802. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.

Be it known that I, HERMANN H. RIPPE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Car:Replacers-, of which-the following is a specification.

This invention is a car replacerdesigned particularly for use in connection with the grooved railsof street-railways, and has for its object the provision of an improved device for replacing the car-wheels on the track. It is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. ing the rail in section.

Referring specifically to the drawings,the replacer comprises an elongated inclined bar or block A, the incline proceeding at a slight angle from one end to the other, where it terminates in a curve extending sharply down to the base.

therebetween a groove which receives the flange of the car-wheel when the device is in use. PrO ectmg from the rear or butt end of Fig. 3 is an end view show- The side edges of this block have upwardlyextending flanges B, producing use the rcplacer is placed With the blockD in the groove of the rail, as shown in Fig. 3. The grooved bar is then turned I to bring its point in line with the car-wheels, so that they will run up into the groove and being guided by the flanges roll off the butt of the replacer onto the rail. The pivotal point being at the by Letters Patent, is

1. A car-replacer comprising a grooved inclined. bar pivoted at its butt, on the under side, to a block constructed to fit in the groove of'a rail.

2. A car-replacer comprising a block adapted to fit in the grooveof a rail, and an in clined grooved bar having on the under side of the butt thereof a pivot-studconnecting it to the block.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. HERMANN H. RIPPE. Witnesses: 4

JOHN A. BOMMHARDT, LOTTIE NEWBURN. 

